Department of labar Responsibilities of the dept. Delegation of Authority and Assignment of Responsibilities for Compliance Assistance Activities. They use a variety of strategies, programs and tools to help educate the regulated community. They basically deal with the minimum wage and the labor prices for different fields.They are responsible for the jobs people have and they always try to create more jobs for people to reduce the unemployment.The goal of the Department’s assistance activities is to protect America’s workforce by improving employment laws and regulations. Issues Minimum wage 1)There are many people who are against minimum wage laws; because they think it hurts small businesses more than large businesses. It causes outsourcing and loss the manufacturing jobs to other countries or most of the businesses spend less on training their employees.In other side if they increasing the minimum wage in the same time it will reduces quantity demanded of workers because some businesses going to work less hour then usual and it will end up running out of business. 2)Raising wages for 16 year old kids working at a store in shopping malls is not the best way to address the main problem of poverty, like educational opportunities. Raising the minimum wage for the people who work full-time to raise a family based on the minimum wage is more popular than effective.Minimum wage makes goods more expensive for low-income workers. 3)Increasing the minimum wage are generally supported by union and liberal anti-poverty organizations, because they think it helps the nation’s working poor who are working full time and making13,927 per year.Opponents include that small businesses will not be able to effort paying minimum wage to their workers, so majority of them end up hiring illegal workers to pay less. Budget 2008 Budget Overview
Total Budget Authority
(Dollars in Billions)
FY 2007
FY 2008
Change
Discretionary Programs:
$11.7
$10.6
-$1.1
Mandatory Programs:
$35.0
$39.8
+$4.8
Total, Department of Labor
$46.7
$50.4
+$3.7
Full Time Equivalents (FTE)
16,190
16,869
+679
History of dept. 1913-13210.start-up of the Department and world war 1 1921-1933 the 1920s and the start of the depression 1933-1945 The Department in the New Deal and world 2 1945-1953 post-war Era and Korean war Mobilization 1953-1961 Eisenhower administration 1961-1969 Eras of the new Frontier and the Great society 1969-1977 Nixon and Ford administrations 1977-1981 Carter Administration. 1981-1988 Reagan administration.He was tried to carrying out the laws administered by the Department in an even-handed fashion. His goal was to improve the economic growth, not government programs, but promised to help the unemployed to make the transition to new jobs. He also promised to help those with special employment problems and enter the job market on an equal basis. Recommendation to the President Dear President Obama, I really want to have a discussion with you about the Department of Labor.It seems the department is trying to help the lower class people by increasing the minimum wage. In some point of view it makes sense because there are many families who are living with minimum wages income. If you just focusing on lower class people you will hurt others who are running their own small businesses or the people who are rich and they have to pay extra tax. Questions 1)What is the main reason that some people are against raising the minimum wage? 2)What majority of small businesses do when they don’t effort to pay minimum wages? www.directionsmag.com/columns.php?column_id http://www.policyalmanac.org/economic/minimum_wage.shtml www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_48/b3910096_mz021. http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/hs75menu.htm
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Department of labar
Responsibilities of the dept.
Delegation of Authority and Assignment of Responsibilities for Compliance Assistance Activities. They use a variety of strategies, programs and tools to help educate the regulated community. They basically deal with the minimum wage and the labor prices for different fields. They are responsible for the jobs people have and they always try to create more jobs for people to reduce the unemployment. The goal of the Department’s assistance activities is to protect America’s workforce by improving employment laws and regulations.
Issues
Minimum wage
1) There are many people who are against minimum wage laws; because they think it hurts small businesses more than large businesses. It causes outsourcing and loss the manufacturing jobs to other countries or most of the businesses spend less on training their employees. In other side if they increasing the minimum wage in the same time it will reduces quantity demanded of workers because some businesses going to work less hour then usual and it will end up running out of business.
2) Raising wages for 16 year old kids working at a store in shopping malls is not the best way to address the main problem of poverty, like educational opportunities.
Raising the minimum wage for the people who work full-time to raise a family
based on the minimum wage is more popular than effective. Minimum wage
makes goods more expensive for low-income workers.
3) Increasing the minimum wage are generally supported by union and liberal anti-poverty organizations, because they think it helps the nation’s working poor who are working full time and making 13,927 per year. Opponents include that small businesses will not be able to effort paying minimum wage to their workers, so majority of them end up hiring illegal workers to pay less.
Budget
2008 Budget Overview
History of dept.
1913-13210. start-up of the Department and world war 1
1921-1933 the 1920s and the start of the depression
1933-1945 The Department in the New Deal and world 2
1945-1953 post-war Era and Korean war Mobilization
1953-1961 Eisenhower administration
1961-1969 Eras of the new Frontier and the Great society
1969-1977 Nixon and Ford administrations
1977-1981 Carter Administration.
1981-1988 Reagan administration. He was tried to carrying out the laws administered by the Department in an even-handed fashion. His goal was to improve the economic growth, not government programs, but promised to help the unemployed to make the transition to new jobs. He also promised to help those with special employment problems and enter the job market on an equal basis.
Recommendation to the President
Dear President Obama,
I really want to have a discussion with you about the Department of Labor. It seems the department is trying to help the lower class people by increasing the minimum wage. In some point of view it makes sense because there are many families who are living with minimum wages income. If you just focusing on lower class people you will hurt others who are running their own small businesses or the people who are rich and they have to pay extra tax.
Questions
1) What is the main reason that some people are against raising the minimum wage?
2) What majority of small businesses do when they don’t effort to pay minimum wages?
www.directionsmag.com/columns.php?column_id
http://www.policyalmanac.org/economic/minimum_wage.shtml
www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_48/b3910096_mz021.
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/hs75menu.htm
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